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done. And anyhow things got worse and worse. They were hopeless. This day, this speech and this occasion had turned their minds from pessimism to optimism. They did believe that something could be done and would be done and that in Roosevelt, whom they had just seen inaugurated, they had a leader who would help them get out of the jam that the country was in.

There were a great many expressions of faith. That would be expected. They were all, I suppose, Democrats, but they were not strictly politicians. Many of them were distinguished persons who had been officers of their states and some were just very common, ordinary people, who had been on campaign committees, and one thing or another. A great many women were there who were pleased to death because they had been invited for themselves, because they had served on one of the women's committees on the campaign. They knew Miss Dewson by name at least. They recognized that they had been they had invited to this reception because of the work they had done in their campaign area. They felt that they had been noticed and recognized.

It was a very well-dressed crowd, in spite of the fact that so many of them pleaded poverty. I recognized that they had put on their best bibs and tuckers. It was not an overdressed crowd. You didn't have the feeling that it was